Head of Fundraising

Lead, Innovate, Transform: Become Our Head of Fundraising

Are you looking for a fundraising role that fits around your life while making a real difference? At Young Barnet Foundation (YBF), we understand that great work happens when flexibility meets purpose.

We’re looking for a passionate, strategic leader to drive our fundraising efforts, working alongside a dedicated and supportive team. This isn’t just about securing funds—it’s about building lasting partnerships, unlocking opportunities, and ensuring every child and young person in our community has the chance to thrive.

If you’re ready to shape the future of fundraising while balancing your responsibilities, we’d love to hear from you.

  Key Duties and Responsibilities

• Adopting and adapting the YBF Fundraising Strategy to ensure diversity of income and fundraising opportunities to support and maintain the sustainability and growth of Young Barnet Foundations
• Responsible for developing and maintaining new and existing Trust & Foundation Funding relationships including applications, M & E reporting, attending key networking events.
• Develop and manage the Community Fundraising Programme with line management of community fundraisers. Establish a network of community fundraisers, building relationships with community fundraising ‘champions’, and providing excellent supporter care and timely communication.
• Work with the team to plan, develop and deliver new community fundraising products, campaigns and events that will resonate with stakeholders including members, donors and volunteers to fundraise.
• Identify opportunities to grow our Sector Grants funds via partners – funders, corporates, individual donors
• Line management of part time Marketing and Communications roles to with responsibility for operational delivery of their communications strategy.
• Performance management of your team, including, 1-2-1 meetings, appraisals, day-day performance management against KPI’s, motivation and objectives.
• Oversee Comms & Marketing team to develop and drive forward promotion of community fundraising to reach existing and new audiences, including developing content for social channels, e-comms, webpages and fundraising packs.
• Build collaborative relationships with peers across the charity.
• To support and implement strategies to achieve sustainable, long-term funding, contract-winning and other income generation for the children and young people’s sector in Barnet via our Membership eg providing members with advice, information, and networking/training opportunities; assistance with fundraising and partnership building, funding Training and events for the sector

 Candidate Profile

Essential

• Exceptional strategic thinking, strong networking skills and contacts with a proven track record of achieving fundraising targets.
• Ability to demonstrate suitable experience within the sector including community development and community fundraising
• Strong literacy skills to deliver strong bid writing with financial literacy and experience with project budgets.
• Understanding and experience of working with a wide range of stakeholders and building successful partnerships.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, with people at all levels.
• Ability to line manage a small team

Desirable

• A demonstrable understanding of current voluntary and community sector concerns.
• Project management experience.
• Marketing and event organisation experience.

Qualities

• Strong leaders skills, self-motivated and able to manage time and prioritise your workload.
• A confident decision-maker, proven project delivery and open to adapt and implement change.
• Passionate about the voluntary sector and its role in creating positive social change and a commitment to the ethos and values of YBF.
• Commitment to inclusion, equality and diversity and an understanding how to promote them in the workplace

Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: £32,000.00-£40,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Transport links

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Barnet EN4 8SG: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• Fundraising: 2 years (required)

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 07/05/2025